The Age of American Imperialism

Policy introduced by the United States that would grant all Western powers equal trade access to China

• Open Door policy

• Free China policy

• Boxer policy

• Sphere of influence

Nation that opened several of its ports to trade with the United States following Commodore Perry's 1853 expedition

• China

• Japan

• The Philippines

• Russia

Idea that the United States and Latin America should work together to support peace and increase trade

• Pan-Americanism

• Dollar diplomacy

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Anglo-Saxonism

Event that served as the immediate cause of the Spanish-American War

• Appointment of General Valeriano Weyler

• Ambassador de Lome's insulting letter

• Jose Marti's death in battle against the Spanish

• Explosion of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor

Said that President McKinley had "no more backbone than a chocolate eclair" when he did not immediately declare war on Spain

• Alfred T. Mahan

• Theodore Roosevelt

• William Howard Taft

• Emilio Aguinaldo

Federal law that made Puerto Rico an unincorporated territory of the United States

• Platt Amendment

• Organic Act

• Foraker Act

• Jones Act

Revolt in which an anti-Western group in China seized several foreign embassies in Beijing and killed over 200 foreigners

• Chinese Revolution

• Boxer Rebellion

• Guerrilla War

• Russo-Japanese War

French agent who engineered a rebellion in Panama in order to give the United States a location to build a canal

• Enrique Dupuy de Lome

• John Hay

• Philippe Bunau-Varilla

• Georges Clemenceau

Policy of displaying American military and economic might to the world in order to ensure global peace

• Dollar diplomacy

• "Big Stick" diplomacy

• Imperial diplomacy

• "Open Door" diplomacy

Sensationalized reporting that heavily exaggerated many Spanish atrocities against the Cuban people to American readers

• Muckraking

• Blue journalism

• Libel

• Yellow journalism